Johnny Flynn

‘Sillion’ has grown episodically between Flynn’s commitments to acting, composing, and his
young family. It’s an album about the sacredness of man’s endeavour to connect with the
earth while separated from it. It’s the sound of Flynn breathing in and breathing out.

First single ‘Raising the Dead’, tells of Flynn getting to know his newborn daughter. “My Dad
died when I was 18, and that was quite a galvanising experience,” Flynn says, “and there’s
often an element of that in anything I’m writing; every big loss that you suffer in life, I think
everything comes through the conduit of that. I had a really strong sense of my daughter
having elements of my Dad when she came along, and it made me kind of laugh - that
cyclical sense, of thinking of my daughter as my Dad.”